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Ben Graham
New York Times, Tuesday, February 12, 1957
28-Down : Swift currents of water.
Author:
Ben Graham
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { H J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 34.1
Grid has supersymmetry.
Ben Graham has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 D | 2 A | 3 M | 4 M | 5 E | 6 D | 7 R | 8 I | 9 B | 10 B | 11 E | 12 D | |||
13 D | E | C | E | I | V | E | 14 E | L | E | A | N | O | 15 R |
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16 E | N | C | A | S | E | D | 17 C | O | N | G | A | M | E |
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18 S | T | U | N | T | 19 U | 20 F | A | 21 D | E | M | I | T |
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22 E | A | S | Y | 23 S | C | A | N | 24 T | 25 L | E | N | A |
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26 R | T | E | 27 S | T | E | N | T | O | 28 R | 29 L | I | I |
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30 T | E | D | 31 I | O | U | S | 32 S | T | A | 33 S | S | E | N |
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34 O | D | D | 35 A | C | E | |||||||||
36 G | 37 R | 38 A | N | A | D | 39 A | 40 B | L | E | N | 41 D | 42 E | 43 D |
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44 R | E | B | 45 S | E | R | 46 I | A | L | S | 47 I | N | E |
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48 A | M | I | 49 D | 50 D | I | T | T | Y | 51 O | S | S | A |
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52 C | O | L | O | 53 N | 54 A | S | S | 55 T | A | P | U | L |
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56 E | V | E | R | A | 57 N | D | 58 M | 59 E | A | S | U | R | E |
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60 D | E | N | I | S | O | N | 61 A | R | B | I | T | E | R |
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62 D | E | C | O | D | E | 63 N | A | S | S | E | R |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 2,786
Across
1
Blocked the flow. : DAMMED
7
Describing corduroy. : RIBBED
13
Hoodwink. : DECEIVE
14
A First Lady. : ELEANOR
16
Boxed. : ENCASED
17
Swindler's routine. : CONGAME
18
Dwarf. : STUNT
19
City on trade route to Siberia. : UFA
21
Resign. : DEMIT
22
Unhurried. : EASY
23
Not enough. : SCANT
25
Siberian river. : LENA
26
Road map abbreviation. : RTE
27
Loud-voiced herald in Trojan War. : STENTOR
29
Fifty-two. : LII
30
Engendering ennui. : TEDIOUS
32
Eisenhower's adviser on disarmament. : STASSEN
34
Kind of job. : ODD
35
Card. : ACE
36
City in southern Spain. : GRANADA
40
Prepared, as a pipe mixture. : BLENDED
44
Resister of authority: Colloq. : REB
45
Old-time movies. : SERIALS
47
Noun suffix. : INE
48
Among. : AMID
50
Song. : DITTY
51
Thessalian mountain. : OSSA
52
City on the Caribbean. : COLON
54
Burro. : ASS
55
Philippine Island group. : TAPUL
56
___ anon (once in a while). : EVERAND
58
Step. : MEASURE
60
Eisenhower's birthplace. : DENISON
61
An umpire, for example. : ARBITER
62
Decipher. : DECODE
63
Controversial Middle-Easterner. : NASSER
Down
1
Having a toothed margin, as a leaf. : DENTATE
2
Found at fault. : ACCUSED
3
Labor chief. : MEANY
4
Film. : MIST
5
Poetic time. : EVE
6
Infers. : DEDUCES
7
Withdraws statements. : RECANTS
8
Labor group. : ILO
9
South ___. : BEND
10
Bakery item. : BAGEL
11
Glosses. : ENAMELS
12
Pastor. : DOMINIE
13
Setting for 51 Down. : DESERT
15
Pay a fee for future services. : RETAIN
20
Zealot. : FAN
23
Adorned with knobs. : STUDDED
24
Without exception. : TOTALLY
27
Beverages. : SODAS
28
Swift currents of water. : RACES
31
Electrically charged atom. : ION
33
Coin of Honshu. : SEN
36
Decorated. : GRACED
37
Took off. : REMOVED
38
Eisenhower's home town. : ABILENE
39
Daughter of Minos. : ARIADNE
40
Mantle, at times. : BATSMAN
41
Quarrel. : DISPUTE
42
Guarantor. : ENSURER
43
Business man. : DEALER
46
Pronoun. : ITS
49
Greek dialect. : DORIC
51
Isolated verdure. : OASIS
53
Publius Ovidius ___. : NASO
55
Checks: Colloq. : TABS
57
Make a slip. : NOD
59
Paleozoic, for example. : ERA
Answer summary:
4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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